Why on earth would a copy editor need to know who's who in the world of sports?

I legitimately knew two of the names on the list:

Tiger Woods the famously seductive pro golf player

and

Smarty Jones, a racehorse I happened to watch a documentary on at some point in my perusal of Netflix.

I put an exclamation mark next to Smarty's name to emphasize just how proud of this random knowledge I was. The rest of the page was marginally white.

I was unaware of just how lacking my sports knowledge was until this point, which is apparently a colossal deficiency.

The empty page mocked me.

Rather than leave the page blank I decided to showcase a little creativity and inventive personality.

I filled in my page as follows.

Believing the worst to be over and the fact deficiency mitigated with wittiness I turned the page.

It got worse.

Not only was the test requesting athlete names known by most Americans, but now the test wanted area specifics.

Here are some questions asked about sports in the Spokane area.

1. Name as many Spokane High Schools and their mascots as possible.

2. What year did the Washington State Cougars go to the ________ championship?

3. Fill in the championship blank in #2

4. Who coaches the Chiefs?

5. The bulldogs are mascots for which Spokane collegiate team?

I had lived in Spokane for a total of 1 week at this point.

... So I made up answers here too, and put my anthropology degree to work.

In short, I made up or gave up on most answers pages 3 through 6.

And I found out, after the test of course, why the quiz was so sporting centric.

I wrote an addendum to my exam explaining that I'd only lived in the state of Washington for a grand total of 7 days and promised to brush up my sporting jargon but I'm pretty sure my excuse fell on deaf ears.

Shockingly, they didn't call.

Sad face.

Since then, I've interviewed at over 20 places.

that's an average of 3 per week.

Here are some highlights from my interviewing repository.

Bums should not be discussed during interviews.

You should always remember your interviewers name.

Meeting the CEO right off the bat, in a closed meeting, is not always a good thing on day 1.

Despite my numerous interview blunders, these experiences have not been entirely unfruitful - I have had a few job offers.

In fact, I even took a job.

I was going to be a Property Manager at Eagle Point, a large and lavish apartment complex in a neighboring city.

That lasted for a grand total of 3 hours.

I quit more quickly than expected.

After those three hours I realized I hated property management, I wanted to do something entirely different and I didn't NEED to settle for a sub par position.

At least not yet anyway.

That was about a month ago.

Three job offers and no paychecks later, I think my husband is about done with my job search, and I'm right there with him.

My new approach to career hunting is to actually read the job postings (shocking advice I know) and only apply to positions I'd actually enjoy doing.

So... if you live in the Spokane area, you should hire me to do awesome things.